martin bashir resigned because he made those comments about sarah palin. >> there are a couple of things that people do not understand about the story. in the media business, comcast is now the owner. conservative company, does not take these things lightly. they came down with a heavy hand. alec baldwin had trouble with other issues. anger, big problem. that was over the top. how they handled the bashir situation was horrible -- three weeks to make a decision and letting him slide out. no one believes that. msnbc has mud on their hands as well. one of the things that everybody is proud of is that they are still on air -- not on air today. that is a good thing. >> we're scandal free here. -- founder and president of we will be back in two minutes. ♪ >> it is 56 past the hour, which means we are on the markets. futures are pretty flat right now. we have still numbers coming out between the mcdonald's lag -- this comes after a huge rally that we saw on friday. the biggest rally in four weeks. we are on the markets again in 30 minutes. ♪ come gois "in the loop with betty liu. here's wha